Usually means: Catching fish from water bodies.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. fishing: Merriam-Webster
  2. fishing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fishing: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fishing: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fishing: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fishing, fishing: Wordnik
  7. fishing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fishing: Wiktionary
  9. fishing: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fishing: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fishing: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Fishing, fishing: Dictionary.com
  13. fishing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Fishing (Annibale Carracci), Fishing (Boucher), Fishing (Carracci), Fishing (disambiguation), Fishing (sculpture), Fishing (song): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Fishing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. fishing: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. fishing: Rhymezone
  18. fishing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. fishing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. fishing: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. Fishing: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. fishing: FreeDictionary.org
  23. fishing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. fishing: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. fishing: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. Fishing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  27. fishing: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fishing: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. fishing: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. fishing: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fishing: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. winyourwager.com Gambling Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Fishing: Sports Definitions

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)
  3. Sandahl, Middle English Sea Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See fish as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (uncountable) The act of catching fish.
noun:  (uncountable, informal) The act of catching other forms of seafood, separately or together with fish.
noun:  (uncountable) Commercial fishing: the business or industry of catching fish and other seafood for sale.
noun:  (countable) A fishery, a place for catching fish.

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